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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three Commentators on the Beat Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which "beat" term refers to a person who is ignorant of or uninterested in current fads, ideas, manners, tastes, etc.?
(a) Base.
(b) Square.
(c) Boring.
(d) Unhip.

2. What is the dog looking at questioningly in the poem "Dog"?
(a) A gramophone.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A flower.
(d) A telephone.

3. In what year did Neal Cassady die?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1969.

4. Where is Diane DiPrima from?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Sacramento, California.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

5. What scene does "Nova Express" describe?
(a) A funeral
(b) A sinking ship.
(c) A battlefield.
(d) A wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Diane DiPrima attend college before dropping out to become a poet?

2. Where was Bob Kaufman born?

3. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?

4. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?

5. What is one of the useful functions that the Beat Generation helped the progression of, according to "The Game of the Name"?

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